REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI: 71 YEARS AFTER

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REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI: 71 YEARS AFTER

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Posted by strattof on August 4, 2016

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium bomb on Hiroshima, a city of 350.000. The bomb instantly killed a third of the population, most of them civilians. Three days later, it dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. It too killed tens of thousands of people. In both cities many more would be dead by the year’s end, as a result of injuries and radiation poisoning.

On the 71st anniversary of these horrific events, we remember:
•The victims of the 1945 bombings.
•Those who have died or been injured in nuclear accidents.
•Those who have died or been injured from working in the uranium industry.
•Those whose lives, land, and resources have been impacted by uranium mining.

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Hiroshima: The History You Should Know: A Historic Countdown to the US Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki [Aug 6th]

[ http://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/wha ... ki/5539926 ]

By Greg Mitchell * Asia-Pacific Research, August 06, 2016

The following is a compilation of articles that create a historical countdown from Pressing Issues which looks at the behind the scene events of the days leading to the US nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively on August 6 and August 9, 1945. Examining the nuclear attacks on Japan, it is worth quoting General Eisenhower that "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn´t necessary to hit them with that awful thing." -- Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Asia-Pacific Research Editor, 6 August, 2016.

To see the original entries please click here:

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 7 Days
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... -days.html ]

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 6 Days
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... -1945.html ]

Countdown to Hiroshima, X-Minus 5 Days
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... ust-1.html ]

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 4 Days
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... ust-2.html ]

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 3 Days
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... knows.html ]

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 2 Days
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... -1945.html ]

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 1 Day
[ http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.ca/2 ... ust-6.html ]

[Go to original URL to see all descriptions above incorporated on a single page]
[ http://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/wha ... ki/5539926 ]


Author´s Note
Each summer I count down the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945), marking events from the same day in 1945. I´ve been doing it here for more than two weeks now.

* Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books, with three on the use of the bomb, including Atomic Cover-Up (on the decades-long suppression of shocking film shot in the atomic cities by the U.S. military) and Hollywood Bomb (the wild story of how an MGM 1947 drama was censored by the military and Truman himself). The original source of this article is Asia-Pacific Research Copyright © Greg Mitchell, Asia-Pacific Research, 2016